Former Cal golfer finishes round after being bitten by black widow

Only a handful of diehard Cal sports fans likely remember Daniela Holmqvist, but the former Cal women’s golfer is making headlines now for an incredible feat of toughness.

Holmqvist was on the fourth hole of the Royal Canberra Golf Club in Australia yesterday when she felt a sharp prick on her leg. She looked down to see a black spider with a red dot on its back crawling down her sock.

“When I told the local caddies in my group what had happened, they got very upset and said it was a black widow, and immediately started looking for their phones to call the medics,” Holmqvist told Svensk Golf.

But Holmqvist was focused, on the job and apparently auditioning for a part in the next Hunger Games movie. With the pain mounting, she took a tee out of her pocket and used it to cut open the spider bite and squeeze out of the poison.

Medics arrived on the scene, but Holmqvist told them she wanted to continue her round. She did so with their supervision but, perhaps due to the persistent pain of a black widow bite, Holmqvist shot a 74 and did not make the cut for the tournament.

Luckily, we’re pretty sure she will make the cut as the toughest athlete in the universe.